16. Landscape Mosaic can best be described as what?
a. Quilt work of different habitats
b. distinct communities making up the mosaic
c. patches of land making up the landscape

17. What is the landscape edge?
a. where multiple types of land meet
b. field bordering a forest
c. where two different landscapes meet
d. both b and c

18. The blending of two different ecosystems with trees and grasses meeting and overlapping can best be described as?
a. landscape edge
b. ecotone
c. guilds
d. patches

19. Completion: The edge effect typically needs biodiversity around the edges because of varied plant communities.
a. less
b. more
c. equal

20. Corridors
a. funciton as travel lanes for organisms
b. are strips of vegetation that do not connect one patch with another
c. usually created by humans
d. both a and c
e. are a, b, and c

21. Sugar maple, birch, beech and aspen are what kind of trees?
a. Shade tolerant
b. Shade intolerant
c. Shade tolerant and shade intolerant

22. Lake succession can best be described as:
a. progression of a lake into a field
b. not typically occuring in shallow water lakes
c. does not typically occcur in deep water lakes
d. a, b, and c
e. both a and c

23. This succession starts with cattails, rushes and other surface vegetation growing around the shoreline.
a. Primary succession
b. lake succession
c. secondary succession
d. neither

24. completion: Oxygen levels _ because of decomposition and firsh species __.
a. decrease, increase
b. increase, increase
c, decrease, decrease

25. The dominant plant species in a marsh.
a. is woody vegetation
b. is water
c. is reeds and cattails
d. is sphagnum moss

26. This type of wetland, typically has large amounts of woody vegetation.
a. bogs
b, swamp
c. marsh

27. Sphagnum moss can mostly be found in?
a. a swamp
b. a bog
c. a marsh
d. a classroom


Short Answer!
28. Explain the diffrence between a bog and a swamp.

29. Explain the 4 steps of lake succession,

30. Explain shade tolerant and shade intolerant trees, and give three examples of each.